One of my test systems didn't boot with latest git-x86. I bisected it down to f1321f875910172bcc3e1f302fe145a9e4d3bdf7
With later patches the fault seemed to happen even earlier before other initialization messages. Config is available at http://halobates.de/config -Andi commit f1321f875910172bcc3e1f302fe145a9e4d3bdf7 Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Jan 18 23:05:33 2008 +0100 x86: Change size of node ids from u8 to u16 fixup Change the size of node ids for X86_64 from 8 bits to 16 bits to accomodate more than 256 nodes. Introduce a "numanode_t" type for x86-generic usage. ... swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000ff700000 - 0000000100000000 Allocating PCI resources starting at e2000000 (gap: e0000000:1ec00000) SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs PERCPU: Allocating 34912 bytes of per cpu data PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff802602cd error 0 cr2 6b0 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc8-g3c2d7552 #27 Call Trace: [<ffffffff802602cd>] __build_all_zonelists+0x2a9/0x40a [<ffffffff80260110>] __build_all_zonelists+0xec/0x40a [<ffffffff802605ce>] build_all_zonelists+0x1a0/0x244 [<ffffffff80811950>] start_kernel+0x110/0x2bd [<ffffffff808111c6>] _sinittext+0x1c6/0x1cd RIP 0x10 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/